St. Tammany Parish officials want residents to know that some media reports that say the bridge over the Bogue Falaya River at Boston Street in Covington will overtop Wednesday are false. The official forecast is for the river to peak at 10.5 feet, well below the 17 feet needed to impact the bridge.

Christine HarveyThe war room at the St. Tammany Emergency Operations Center in Covington

Otherwise, the winds in St. Tammany are holding steady at 24 mph, with gusts of 41 mph. Roughly 3,263 homes are without power at 10 p.m.

A tree has fallen across part of Interstate 12 about one mile west of Airport Road in Slidell, officials said. In addition, trees are down on Fish Hatchery Road in Lacombe, in the Ozone Woods neighborhood west of Slidell, on Louisiana 1090 in Slidell and on Pete Kennedy Road in Pearl River.

The parish also is receiving some reports of downed power lines in several areas.